Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-25

fhnm,,;.. t p".lAhg, ana ear boxing, and
WV ain ping and stamping, and fault find.
49, "lu leasing until the children are
soara oeyond bounds and growl in the
within themselves that in after dove INV INV
VIII retaliate for the cruelties nroc,;cojy
MANY home has become ma fnll of d;a
pn'e as was the home of John O,Groat
VINO bul!t his house at the most northerIy,
polnt IN Great Britain. And tradition saws
mat the house had eight windows md 4
elsnt doors, and table of eight sides. he.
cause he had eight children and the onlv
way TO Keep them out of bitter ounrra, wos
10 nave separate appointment for each
one of them. oA ea'n
Ina. chllds nature is too delicate to be
worked upon by sledge hammer and
gouge, and pile driver. Such fierce lash
ing instead of breaking the high mettla
TO bit and trace, will make it dash of Tho
more uncomfortable. MANY seem to
.nink that children are fax-not fit for nse
III they have been hetcheled and swinolad1
some one talking to child said: II NON.
oer what makes that tree out there 20
crooked" The child replied: 81 suppose
~ was trod upon while it was young" In
some families all the discipline is con-
centrated upon one child's head. If any,
.hlng IS done wrong. the supposition is
mat George did it. He broke the latch.
ne LETT open the gate. He hacked the
oannlsters. lie whitfield sticks on the
carpets. And George shall be the scape.
goat for all domestic misunderstanding
and suspicious. If things get wrong in
the culinary department., in comes the
mother and says, angrily: sWhere is
George?" If business matters are ner-
picking at the store, in comes the father at
night and says. angrily: "Where is
George" In many household there is
such one singled out for suspicion and
castigation. All the sweet flowers of his
soul blasted under this perpetual north
east storm, he curses the day in which he
was born. Safer the child in an ark of
bulrushes on the Nile, among crocodiles.
than in an elegant mansion, amid such
domestic gorgons. A mother was passing
along the street one day, and came up to
her little child, who did not see her an.
proach, and her child was saying to her
playmate: "You good-for- nothing little
scamp, you come right into the house this
minute or 1 will beat you till the skin
comes off," The mother broke in, saying:
why, Lizzie, am surprised to hear YOU
talk like that to any one!" "Oh," said the
child, II was only playing, and he is my
little boy, and am scoiding him, as you
did me this morning." Children are apt
to be echoes of their parents.
Safer in Bethlehe m man. ger among cat
tie and camels with gentle Mary TO watch
the little innocent than the most extrava-
giant nursery, over which Gods star of
peace never stood. The trapper extin-
cuisines the flames on the prairie by fight
ing fire with fire, but you cannot, with the
fire of your own disposition, put out the
fire of child's disposition.
Yet We may rush to the other extreme
and rule children by too great leniency.
The surgeon is not unkind because, not
the resistance of his patient,
he goes straight on with firm hand and un-
faltering heart to take off the gangrene.
Nor is the parent less affectionate and
faithful because, Notwithstanding all vio-
lent circumstances on the part of the child,
he with the firmest discipline advances to
the cutting off of its evil inclinations. The
Bible says: "Chasten thy son while there
is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his
crying" Childish rage unchecked will,
after while, become hurricane. Child
lhropy. Childish rebellion will develop
into the lawlessness of riot and sedition.
If you would ruin the child, dance to his
every caprice and stuff him with confec-
tionery. Before you are aware of it that
boy of years will 60 down the street,
cigar in his mouth and ready on any cor
aer with his comrades to compare pugilis-
lie attainments. The parent who allows
he child to grow up without ever having
the great duty of obedience and
has prepared cup of burning
gall for his own lips and appalling de-
struction for his descendant. Remember
Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phine-
has.
A second error prevalent in the training
Of children is laying out of theory and
it without arranging it to varie-
lies of disposition. In every family you
will find striking differences of temper
ment. This child is too timid, and that
too bold, and this too miserly, and that too
this too inactive and that too
boistrous. Now, the farmer who should
plant corn and wheat and turnips in just
hopper and grind them in the same. mill,
would not be SO much of fool us the par
ent who should attempt to discipline and
educate NIL their children in the same man.
ner. 1t needs q skillful hand to adjust
these checks and balances. The rigidity
of government which is necessary to hold
in this impetuous nature would utterly
crush that hexile disposition, while the
gentle reproof that would suffice for the
latter would. when used Oh the former, be
like attempting to hold champing Bucep-
halus with reins Of gossamer. God
gives US in the disposition of each child o
hint as to how we ought to train him, and,
rs God in the mental structure of our chill
dren indicates what mode of training is the
best, he also indicates in the disposition
their future occupation. Do not write down
that child as dull because it may not now
be as brilliant Us your other children or as
those of your neighbor. Some of the
mightiest men and women of the centuries
had stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas
was called at school "the dumb OK" but
afterwards demonstrated his sanctifed
genius and was called "the angel of the
schools" and "the eagle of Brittany"
Kindness and patience with child will
conquer almost anything, and they are vir-
tues SO Christianlike that they are inspir-
in to look at. John Wesley's kiss Of
child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias
Joyce from proaigate into flaming
evangel.
The third error prevalent in the training
of children is the one sided development
of either the physical, intellectual, or
moral nature at the expense of the others.
Those, for instance, greatly mistake who,
while they are faithful in the intellectual
and moral culture of children, forget the
physical. The bright eyes half quenched
NV NIGHT study the cramped chest that